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Where I went to sit and fish with you
We were off of work, and the time felt right
Working all day, catching fish all night!
Okay, done playing with Yellowcard’s song. Doesn’t really fit either, but its stuck in my head right now! If you haven’t guessed it yet, this is going to be a Half Moon Bay jetty fishing report (W Point Ave. is a street near the jetty). We went out to Pillar Point Harbor at night the last two weeks (once a week) to poke pole the jetties after work. Unwind a little, catch a few fish, hang out with friends, you know. Well, it turned out to just be Patrick & me in the end, but that’s fine! More fish for us! 😀

Both days we went out, we didn’t hit the jetties until after 8:30pm. Truly night fishng d= We started off with squid on a carolina rig (1/2 oz – 1oz sliding egg sinkers above a 4/0 octopus hook snelled directly onto the main line). First time I got nothing but snags. Patrick did amazing though!

He started with an eel

We released it since neither of us wanted to deal with cleaning one. After he just kept following it up with fish!

Went out to half moon bay last Saturday, 10/26. Was lazy and didn’t want to get up early to go… so I woke up at 11am on Saturday morning 😀 Hopped onto the computer and started doing playing some skyrim.

Around 2pm it occurred to me that I could totally just launch later…so I checked the weather, looked like it was going to be less than 5 ft, wind only 5-7 knots, so I started packing.

Launched around 330PM from the old pier at half moon bay/pillar point harbor, paddled out around the bend, and…it suddenly got pretty foggy! I went out about half as far as usual and decided it just wasn’t worth traveling too much farther. Wind was already somewhat up and I didn’t want to get blown over some wash rocks anywhere. Hard to tell when swell is down & fog is in. On the way out I passed an area that was only 9ft deep…I seriously need to stop cutting across the wash rocks :

Anyhow, I was searching for a certain ridge, but couldn’t find it. I did find an area that would go from 38ft or so up to 25. Hard to fish it though, a very small section. Snagged up and lost a lot of gear, but did walk away with one chunky black and yellow rock cod :3

Finally got around to it. Very basic, very summarized. Location, date, fish caught, a note or two, link to full report.

More work to be done on it, but for now I’m happy for the night :] Enjoy it here! Or click up in the top of the page, Fish Report (per location). In the future once I’ve got enough trips, I’d like to have an area where they’re split by area instead of all lumped together.

That was one long long weekend. I learned my lesson, I can handle about 4 activities for a 3 days weekend tops…I’m exhausted. I woke up this morning and literally could not function until I’d finished an entire energy drink. I was done with a second, and working on a cup of coffee before 11am.

Anyhow! I set off to go fishing at Steven’s Creek Reservoir on saturday (5/25/2013). Was hoping I’d be able to land a few bass and lots of crappie. Thought it might be the either right before or during spawning, but I might’ve been wrong. Didn’t get many bites, in fact much less then I had found from shore in winter even.
Was supposed to meet up with a couple friends, but some bailed. In the end it was Kara, Ying, Greg & me.

Originally planned to make a run down to Pebble Beach in Carmel, but the forecast said 13mph wind by 12pm. Wanted nothing to do with that. I’ll hit up Stillwater Cove some other day.

Decided I’d give the north jetty at Half Moon Bay a shot. Wanted to get there by 630/7am to pump up some yabbies, but woke up at 9am still feeling groggy… Hopped into the shower, grabbed my gear and was off.

Parked the car at the lot for the north jetty around 10:30am and headed out. I didn’t bother fishing until I was at the last bend.

half moon bay harbor

North jetty is the one in the bottom left side. I started fishing at the second bend (1st bend closest to shore).

There were a ton less bites than I expected. Somewhat disappointed, but can’t complain about the quality of the fish I did bring home. Bounced over an area with squid with no luck. Swapped to a 2″ berkley gulp shrimp, and suddenly FISH WAS ON!